| CaptainExplosion said: I still think Nintendo would be taken more seriously if they tried to do M-rated entries in certain Nintendo franchises. The most obvious choice has to be Metroid, especially considering the premise of being alone and fighting for your life against hostile creatures on an alien world. What do you think? |
I don't think any of those would benefit from an "M Rating". An M rating implies either nudity, cussing, or extreme gore, and none of them really need that, nor does it even fit. Certainly not Mario.
Besides, listen to your statement. "Nintendo would be taken more seriously if they tried to do M-rated entries in certain franchises". How? Taken more seriously by whom? So-called "hardcore" gamers, the type of people who generally don't touch Nintendo consoles because they're "for kids"? Those kind of people have serious maturity issues themselves, to begin with. So I seriously doubt that they're going to really give a single fraction of a damn, if Nintendo suddenly, and foolishly, made a super-gory Zelda game.
Even Metroid, which has always been a "darker toned" franchise, it just wouldn't fit. Are we going to get Samus, who already shouldn't be talking, or talking MUCH, saying "Fuck" and other such nonsense? Are we going to get cartoonish blood and gore splattering everywhere when she blasts enemies, making it like Mortal Kombat? Are we going to get an option to play Samus practically naked? None of those things are really needed, nor would they do any serious benefit to the franchise, or Nintendo as a whole.
Beyond that, yes, Nintendo DOES need some "darker" fare, exlcusives, such as they had with Eternal Darkness and Geist on Gamecube, or No More Heroes and Red Steel and MadWorld and the "R-Rated" House of the Dead game on Wii, or Bayonetta 2 and Devil's Third on Wii U. Except not a single one of those games gave Nintendo an "image makeover". They don't NEED one. Nintendo has always been a "family" and "for everyone" company. That doesn't mean their games are "for kids", or certainly not all of them. But it does mean that they themselves don't need to adjust their image as some "hardcore" game developer.
I think that they would be smart to push Platinum to make a Bayonetta 3 for Switch. And for that matter, though it won't happen, I'd love to see them scoop up the cancelled Scalebound, and have Platinum make a single-player focused, slightly scaled down version of that as a Switch exclusive. That could be really big, because people were excited for that game, last I checked. They're already going to have a No More Heroes 3 from Suda 51, and while again it likely won't happen, I'd REALLY love to see them just pull the trigger on having Dyak and Co., under CLOSE watch, make an actual (non-episodic) Eternal Darkness 2 for Switch. For that matter, Retro Studios could always be working on some brand new IP (I wish), and that could easily be "mature", just not in the dumb sense.
The point is, yes, they could benefit from having some darker toned exlusives. But in the end, the idea that Nintendo themselves somehow need a "hardcore makeover" in gamers' eyes, is laughable. Nintendo do what they do, and most gamers prefer it that way. We just want them to do it WELL, not half-assed.
